Catholic unity, or, The only way to bring us all to be of one…Catholick vnity, or, The only way to bring us all to be of one…

But for the sanctified […] unsanctified; for the […] become ungodly, to be one […] you, this were the b•s•st dish••• sty in the world. We know your way to be of the Devil and […] flesh; and is it honest then to join with you in it? We have •yed too long already in the d••es o• our ignorance, and have found it dishonest and deceitful: and would you have us go against our own experience? We were once in the way that you are in, and were forced to renounce it, or else we had been undone body and soul for ever; and should we ••ck up the vomit which we were forced to cast out? we were once Agreed with you, and God constrained us to break that Agreement: and shall we renew it again? Alas, your way hath cost us dear; Many a bitter repenting day, and many a sad thought, to the breaking of ⟨p. 107⟩our hearts, and the very sense of Gods displeasure; a taste of Hell was cast into our consciences; many a groan, and •ear, and prayer it cost us, before we could recover the hurt that we c•t•ht in the way of ungodliness; and yet we have not fully recovered it to this day. And would you have us stark mad to forget so soon our former sorrows, and turn to a h•e that hath cost us so […] already? No, we have paid too dear for it, and smarted too much for it, to go that way any more: It brought us to the very brink of Hell; and if we had but dyed in that condition, we had been damned at this hour; And would you be so unreasonable as to wish us to go back again? No; by that time you know as much of an unsanctified state as we do, you will run from it your selves as fast as you can run; as •he Israelites did from the cry of the ⟨p. 108⟩company of Dathan and Abiram, lest the earth should swallow them up also,